Flowers Where Your Face Should Be chords by The Wonder Years

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

I like to play the G, C#m, Bm, and A augmentedA a bit differently. Can be played many ways.

Chords:
G+G - 3x023x
C# minorC#m - x40230
B minorBm - x20230
A augmentedA - x02230


Verse 1:
D MajorD
Bright blue hydrangeas
G+G         D MajorD
Lost in the weeds
                     G+G
Bus stops and barbed wire on the way to stare
                    E minorEm
At the heart of the earth from the Poas peak
                     G+G    E minorEm
Just like the ones that we grew back in Jersey
                   G+G
Hung upside down, drying out for the wedding

Verse 2:
D MajorD                        G+G
There's a man with his head in his hands on the sidewalk
D MajorD                      G+G
His wife's there behind him just off of the street
D MajorD                     G+G    D MajorD
She scratches his back as he sobs on the asphalt
                 G+G
And what strikes me most is the symmetry
               E minorEm
How they're framed just like you and me
                  G+G
When the light from the hospital's eastern wing
    E minorEm                        G+G
Tangles up in your hair and the sadness it pooled in my heart
          G+G
Starts emptying slowly


Chorus:
  D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm    A augmentedA     G+G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
        D MajorD  C# minorC#m B minorBm  A augmentedA        G+G   D MajorD
And there were hydrangeas where your face should be

Verse 3:
                    G+G      D MajorD
The redwoods feel lonely and lunar and distant
                         G+G   D MajorD
The sun comes in fragments through breaks in the trees
                      G+G
And I feel further from home than I've ever been
                          G+G
These thin lines of light across space tether you to me
         E minorEm                 G+G
They pull in my memories, back to our apartment on 2nd Street
     E minorEm                            G+G
Through the South-facing window the light catches lengths of your hair

Like a path that you left me


Chorus:
   D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm   A augmentedA      G+G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
        D MajorD C# minorC#m  B minorBm    A augmentedA     G+G
But there were azaleas where your face should be


Bridge:
      D/F#D/F#      E minorEm
Pieces of us in the morning sun
            G+G
Sleeping bags under the 101
    D/F#D/F#    E minorEm
She takes off his glasses and she falls asleep again
                     G+G
They don't got much but goddamn they got love


Chorus:
  D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm    A augmentedA      G+G   G+G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
     D MajorD  C# minorC#m  B minorBm      A augmentedA          G+G
I'm gonna marry you underneath driftwood from Crescent City


Outro:
D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
D MajorD C# minorC#m B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm A augmentedA G+G (hold)